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SHOW HN2015
155points
93comments
#130of 2,565 in 2015
Top 6%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
7 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 5 for, 8 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun, clever idea and license joke
From 3 comments
I am in love with the license text ``` Autonomous Software License (ASL) All property contained in this repo, including Intellectual Property, Financial Property, and Legal…
andreasklinger on HN"GitHub plays programmer" This is going to be great!
13throwaway on HNGreat idea, but I think it should have been named "PReddit" (Pull Request rEDDIT)
tomphoolery on HN
Objections
License would not hold up in court
From 3 comments
Amusing and thought provoking. Does anyone have any idea how this would hold up in a court of law should some something malicious come of this repo? I would imagine not well.
mcjiggerlog on HNIANAL, but there's no way this would hold up. a) Software can't own property. b) This looks like it's running from the author's own system, with the author's explicit consent.…
mintplant on HNIANAL but assuming that the author making this license was in US, it is totally void. It could lead to a court having to formally state that a software is not a legal entity,…
Iv on HN
Not a real software license; grants no permissions
From 1 comment
This claims to be a "software license" but it isn't one. It doesn't give you, the person reading the code, permission to do anything. IANAL, but I presume that any code that…
rspeer on HN
Requests
Enable GitHub issues
From 1 comment
Do you think you can enable issues on github? It may help organize some of the work going on.
pests on HN
Add a judge system or tests
From 2 comments
I wonder how long until someone accidentally breaks it. Nomic has judges for a reason, this one'll just crash... Love the idea though.
Filligree on HNYeah, that is probably pretty important. It looks like a lot of people aren't testing their changes, and any one could have a small syntax error.
mappum on HN
Questions
What server is the code running on?
From 1 comment
What server/platform is the code actually running on? I fail to see how the license can apply, unless there is no server owned by a human entity running the code, and there is no…
lukeqsee on HN
Alternatives named
Nomic
From 1 comment
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
kd5bjo on HN
Crowdsourced homepage repo by Rob Ashton
From 1 comment
I have seen a lot of these Github repositories that accept anything showing up on HN. My favourite one of late was the crowdsourced homepage for a guy named Rob Ashton:…
DigitalSea on HN